Let’s talk for a moment about Star Trek’s redshirt problem. Technically, red means you’re in a support role, like engineering or security (this is in the Original Series, mind you, it all changes after TNG). But because security wears the red shirt, it’s been intrinsically tied to dudes who beam down and jump in front of phaser fire for the captain. Scotty, however, wears a red shirt, and we never see him die — in fact, he lives the longest of anyone on the crew (if you count his being trapped in a transporter for 75 years). The closest you’re going to get to an engineer in the Nintendo world is a plumber. So, if you put Mario in a red shirt, that’s not game over for him. That’s an invincibility star. Give the guy some credit. He didn’t go to plumbers school for nothin’.